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...Previously we would not have dared to think a cuisine 4000 years old was so advanced," Bottero wrote in the March 1985 issue of Biblical Archaeologist magazine...
...tablets most likely date back to the Old Babylonian period of Mesopotamia, Bottero said. The area between the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now Iraq is often referred to as the cradle of civilization...
Twenty-one recipes for meat and four for vegetables are written on the best preserved of the tablets. Instructions call for most of the food to be prepared with water and fats, and to simmer slowly in covered pots, Bottero said...
...What is striking about all this is the multiplicity of condiments that were added to one and the same dish and the care with which they were combined into a blend of often complimentary flavors," Bottero wrote in the 1987 edition of the Journal of the American Oriental Society...
...Mesopotamians "adored their food soaked in fats and oils," Bottero wrote. "They seem obsessed with every member of the onion family, and in contrast to our tastes, salt played a rather minor role in their diet...